Kevin's Weblog

2008-03-27

I took the shotgun approach to this year’s OSCON
call-for-proposals and submitted 3 talks. My biggest fear was
actually that all three might get accepted. But, it worked out as I
hoped and they picked just one. I’ll be talking about “Beautiful
Concurrency with Erlang”. The talk will be an improved and expanded
version of my presentation to PDXfunc last
month, demonstrating how easy it is to convert sequential
programs in Erlang into concurrent / distributed programs taking
advantage of your multi-core machine, or a cluster of machine.

I’m slightly nervous, because I’ll freely admit that I was likely
selected to give this talk more because I’m good at writing
proposals, than because I’m the most qualified person out there to
discuss Erlang. That said, I’ll make an effort to draw on the
expertise of others to help make the talk as good as possible and as
effective as possible at drawing new people into the community.

As a minor aside, I’m currently scheduled for Wednesday morning,
which is ideal as far as I’m concerned. I get to give my talk, then
relax and enjoy the remaining 2 days of the conference.